The aim of this research is to analyze the theoretical influence and case study related to achievement motivation, perfectionism and economic hardship towards academic procrastination and self control as intervening variable. It causes the decrease of productivity and individual work ethic so that it makes the quality of human resources are low. The population of the study was the final-year students (2010,2011,2012)doing final project more than 4 years in Economic Faculty, Semarang State

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... sity. Data is collected using questionnaires. Sampling using convenience sampling technique. In addition, the data is analyzed using descriptive analysis, regression analysis and path analysis. Hypothesis test results indicate that (1) there is simultaneous effect for each variables (31,2%); (2) partially achievement motivation (18,8%), perfectionism (11,8%) and economic hardship (4,29%) have positive and significant effect on self control; (3) partially self control (5,29%) and perfectionism (13%) have positive and significant impact on academic procrastination; (4) partially there isn't influence of achievement motivation and economic hardship toward academic procrastination; (5) self control is able to mediate the effect achievement motivation and perfectionism on academic procrastination; (6) self control isn't able to mediate the effect of economic hardship on academic procrastination.